Factoid/2005/04/20
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Ships' Ballast Tanks Often Carry Deadly Organisms
- "Researchers found that two-thirds of 42 ships sampled for the five-year study carried potentially deadly organisms in ballast tanks that were supposedly empty and clean, including cholera and cryptosporidium, the newspaper [The Muskegon Chronicle] reported. In 1993, cryptosporidium from an unknown source contaminated Milwaukee's drinking water system, killing more than 100 people and making 400,000 others ill." - excerpt from the article at http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=7569
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